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Golden Hour (+ lineart below cut)
I took a picture of the lines for once and did some basic crappy photo editing on my phone, so you could probably print this out and use it as a coloring page or something if you so wish lol. Do with it what you will.
#honkai star rail#dr ratio#veritas ratio#aventurine#aventurine hsr#cherallart#as you can see i forgor i wanted to draw his glasses til like. last second#i can’t believe it’s been like 2 whole months since I last did a whole like. watercolor illustration#part of that’s been bc I’ve been having a bit of a rough semester bc adhd med issues (which are resolved now)#but I really wanted to draw aventurine and ratio. my boys#i’ve been LOVING penacony so far so I needed to get something nice out#anyway I did this while my s/o and I alternated between reading a 500 pg long history book out lout to each other#it’s called ‘the inheritance of rome’ and kinda covers what happened after the collapse of the western roman empire#and tries to identify and explain all the cultural echoes and reverberations and transformations that rose from its ashes#throughout europe north africa and the middle east. anyway it’s super interesting and I highly recommend it#the late antique period is not something often covered/talked abt in public ed hist classes. at least not when I was goin through em#or the transitory period between it and the early medieval period at least#i still got 150 pages left and a final paper due on it in like 4 days but it’s only a 5 pg minimum and I’m a wordy bitch so#i think i can make it#anyway back to that I go
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Muslim men in China, 1930s.
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Hishida Shunso - Cat and Plum Blossoms, 1906 color on silk, 49.8 x 118 cm Adachi Museum of Art
This depiction of a quiet, cold, early spring day portrays a cat crouching underneath an old plum tree. The soft spring sun is tempting to the cat but sleep seems to be prevailing. Shunso liked, and often, drew cats. He particularly liked to illustrate black/white spotted cats, and black cats. The realistic cat and the impressive tree trunk are drawn by using an ink diffusion technique. They contrast each other beautifully, suggesting that Shunso, at the time, had sought to integrate the concepts of realism and decoration. He is thought to have perfected this technique in 1910 with his picture – “Black Cat”. via
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We see him come and know him ours
Russia: "Carol of the Russian Children," traditional // Kenya: The Nativity, Elima Njau // France: "Bring a Torch, Jeanette Isabella," Nicolas Saboly // Haiti: Madonna and Child, Ismael Saincilus // Australia: "The Three Drovers," William James // China: Tryptic by Lu Hongnian // Canadian/Algonquian: "Huron Carol," Jean de Brébeuf
#the visual depictions are lovely#but what really gets me every time are the little cultural details in the music#music that tells the story of the Nativity while placing it in a world that's familiar to the listener#fur robed moujiks on snowboard plateaus in place of middle eastern shepherds#bark lodges instead of stables and rabbit skin in place of swaddling clothes#wandering hunter and chiefs from far off places instead of shepherds and wise men (man i love the Huron Carol)#and little french girls running to gather the village to come see Jesus#it's easy for an excess of historical concern to make Jesus feel distant and far off#/I know/ that Jesus was born in the ancient near east and have had my fill of books and sermons and the like unpacking the implications#I've laughed with my friends and family at the wild inaccuracies of Nativity sets and tellings#the crazy blonde mary in the kids nativity set at Walmart#what is that alpaca doing at the living Nativity don't they know those are south American?#yada yada#and then i look at these carols and think. it's okay not to get mired in the history. good even#yes Jesus entered into time and space in a very specific manner#but he also came for all of us#as another carol says: we see him come and know him ours#i just think this practice is lovely#that the impact of the Incarnation was such that it send little french girls running to their villages#and drew algonquin hunters and russian peasants to the manger to see him#it's the great crowd of witnesses in a way#all of us together preparing him room throughout all the corners of the earth#in Bethlehem that night it was only the shepherds who got to see him#but in spirit it was all of us#because it's just like the angel said:#good news of great joy which will be to all people#to all people#starting with the shepherds and going out to all the earth#unto us a child is born#intertextuality
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Sean bienvenidos, japonistasarqueólogos, en esta ocasión os expongo una situación en lo que respecta al mundo occidental y oriental, dos caras de una misma moneda, ya sea historia del arte, arqueología, geografía, entre otros temas, vengo a exponer el gran desequilibrio que hay en lo que respecta a estas dos corrientes, dicho esto pónganse cómodos que comencemos. - En la foto de mi mano izquierda podemos ver claramente los países que engloban las corrientes de extremo oriente, que es el tema en particular de la publicación y al margen derecho podemos ver algunos países de occidente, entre otros. Voy a coger las palabras más sabias para explicar este desequilibrio de corrientes, que por desgracia, parece que los occidentalistas están implantando la idea del siglo XIX como que lo occidental es mejor que extremo oriente, ya que oriente al estar en la Cochinchina, pues se le tiene en un rango inferior y no es el caso. Si le preguntamos a la gente de la calle, el 90% de la gente si le preguntaras cosas de dicho tema, lo más probable es que no sepan nada, porque carecen de la ignorancia, pero que no es culpa de ellos, sino de cómo se han enseñado las cosas por parte de los gobiernos de los distintos países occidentales. - Otros puntos que vamos a resumir en este párrafo, serían la gente que lo difunde y fermenta la occidentalización, erradicando la orientalización de extremo oriente normal que la gente que divulgamos cosas, de extremo oriente, no tengamos el apoyo suficiente o solo de una parte. - Espero que os haya gustado, posdata estoy dando mi punto de vista, lo más probable es que haya gente que no lo comparta, otros si y otros se mantengan al margen nos vemos en próximas publicaciones. - ようこそ、日本の考古学者の皆さん、この機会に、私は美術史、考古学、地理など、同じコインの裏表である西洋と東洋の世界に関する状況を紹介します。これら 2 つの流れに関しては、そうは言っても、安心して始めましょう。 - 私の左手の写真には、この出版物の特別なテーマである極東海流を含む国々がはっきりと見え、右側にはいくつかの西洋諸国などが見えます。私はこの流れの不均衡を説明するために最も賢明な言葉を使うつもりだが、残念なことに、西洋主義者たちは、東洋はコーチシナにあるので西洋のほうが極東よりも優れているという19世紀の考えを植え付けているようだ。それは彼をより低いランクに置いているのですが、そうではありません。街行く人々に尋ねると、90%の人が、この話題について尋ねると、ほとんどの場合、彼らは無知なので何も知らないということですが、それは彼らのせいではなく、物事がどうなっているのかということです。さまざまな西側諸国の政府によって教えられてきました。 - この段落で要約するその他の点は、それを広め、西洋化を発酵させ、極東の東洋化を根絶する人々です。極東から物事を広める人々が十分な支持を得ていないのは正常ですまたは片側からのみ。 - 気に入っていただければ幸いです。追記 私は私の見解を述べていますが、おそらくそれを共有しない人もいれば、共有する人もいれば、近づかない人もいるでしょう。今後の出版物でお会いしましょう。 - Welcome, Japanese archaeologists, on this occasion I present to you a situation regarding the Western and Eastern world, two sides of the same coin, be it art history, archeology, geography, among other topics, I come to expose the great imbalance that There is in regards to these two currents, having said that, make yourself comfortable and let's begin. - In the photo on my left hand we can clearly see the countries that encompass the Far Eastern currents, which is the particular topic of the publication, and on the right side we can see some Western countries, among others. I am going to use the wisest words to explain this imbalance of currents, which unfortunately, seems that the Westernists are implanting the idea of the 19th century that the Western is better than the Far East, since the Orient is in Cochinchina, since it is It has him in a lower rank and that is not the case. If we ask people on the street, 90% of the people, if you asked them things about this topic, the most likely thing is that they do not know anything, because they lack ignorance, but that is not their fault, but how things have been taught by the governments of the different Western countries. - Other points that we are going to summarize in this paragraph would be the people who spread it and ferment Westernization, eradicating the orientalization of the Far East, it is normal that the people who spread things, from the Far East, do not have enough support or only from one side. - I hope you liked it, postscript I am giving my point of view, most likely there are people who do not share it, others do and others stay away, see you in future publications.
#考古学#歴史#西#東#極東#日本#中国#韓国#アメリカ合衆国#アメリカ#近東#写真#地図#地理#日本美術史#美術史#archaeology#history#west#east#far east#japan#china#korea#united states#america#near east#photos#maps#geography
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a large amount of time I've been spending on -untitled undefined scope original fiction project- since the last time I posted about it has been trying to develop the protagonist concept I came up with last summer or whatever into like, a character that would feel real and era appropriate.
it's fun research to do. naturally a lot of the details I assigned to her are things that I already think are cool, so it's been a lot of fun trying to trace her traits back through the relatively recent past, getting reminded of how much things have changed, or where the gaps in my intuition are, and then doing a flurry of reading to get a sense for exactly how someone like her and the people around her could have happened and what her life was probably like leading up to her present day. hopefully this results in some good good verisimilitude.
#I wrote a short story from her perspective over the holidays and then didn't know how to continue it#and then I got distracted by real life stuff for a few months#I forget if I posted about that#and then I've been picking through archive dot org for the last few weeks looking at this stuff#the last big rabbit hole was trying to get a better feel for era appropriate ts/tv subculture#the current one I'm looking at is how she would've gotten into language learning and how that would've worked#nettle has been prodding me about the setting thing lately so I've been thinking about that more too#probably the biggest hurdle by far is figuring out how I want to play that#and how I want the thing to be divided up#since the original coc scenario I'm developing this out of is centered on a flight from LA to honolulu#and the airport dungeon was definitely meant to be a hook for a larger campaign#some amount of it is going to cover protag lady's failed life in LA and some of it is going to be worse things happening in hawaii#but it's like. how much do I want to balance it one way or the other#and realistically how much does the aesthetics of 20th century air travel add to the story#besides me personally thinking it's compelling ofc#a lot of what I find compelling about hawaii is that it's an east/west cultural crossroads and realistically that's also true of socal#and I can wax poetic about socal as much as I want without worrying all that much about mishandling something#and there's also a lot of socal specific history along similar parallels to pull from that I'm more familiar with#I guess it comes down to whether curiosity re: 'doing it right' is enough of a motivator to do the increased amount of research#which I guess it has so far with the above character details. so hopefully that will continue#but it also feels like using machine translation a bit yknow. it's hard to know how effectively I'll be able to sanity check#although depending on where this goes I might be able to get other people involved to sensitivity read down the line#with most of the creative things I do I just have a tendency to always rely really heavily on figuring things out myself#I also want protag lady to have a Cool Car and idk how to get that from point a to point b narratively#this is like an entire second or third post's worth of tags but I don't feel like unfucking this so whatever. suffer. I guess.
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#extremely obvious by ppls reactions to kamala Harris who has and hasn't talked to a Palestinian irl#we went from acab to voting for a cop lol#identity politics has killed critical thinking on this site#if yall want political analysis from Palestinians (who's opinions i trust more than my own on this matter bc they are experts) i suggest#salm/a sha/wa (an/at international)#mohammed el/kurd#subh/i ta/ha#and if you're willing to branch out to a couple non Palestinians i recommend#san/a saeed#mehd/i has/an#if France can band together to get rid of far rights out of the elected office#then we can make third party candidates viable#minorities throwing each other under the bus for self preservation has historically never worked#vote b/lue no m/atter w/ho has proven that KHs team doesn't have to work hard on campaigning#you can't girl boss fa/cism and jenoxide#you can't vote for a m3me#just yapping to myself in the notes thank you for coming to my ted talk#unless KH definitively distinguishes her policy on gz she is no different than jenosixe j0e#she has a much bl00d on her hands#s/im kern is decent but did have a few fumbles#chris k middle east guy i can't remb his name was good too#not yuval!!!! he's funny haha measuring ur height finding out where u are in the world but his mistakes are too intentional#i know we spread news via destiel meme but we can't spread analysis this way#get off this app and touch grass go to a protest talk to Palestinians#or listen to Palestinian accounts for history and analysis not just for their gofundmes#celebs can and have depolitucized charity to use as a moral shield against genuine criticism
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Soldiers of Russian Imperial army crossing the Ussury river during the military excersize. 1909 - 1912
#BW#Black and White#Preto e Branco#Noir et Blanc#黒と白#Schwarzweiß#retro#vintage#miltary excercise#Russian Empire#Ussury#Far East#history#histoire#história#Geschichte#歴史#historical#historisch#histórico#historique#1909#1900s#1912#1910s#10s
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#it actually makes me sick like physically ill how much praise is heaped onto goyishe american leftists#people who could not point to gaza on a map six months ago. whose knowledge of middle east history comes from outdated textbooks and twitte#for being anti imperial activists and well educated anti imperialists with all the right buzzwords and all the right opinions#meanwhile nothing i say will ever be good enough bc i'm jewish and palestinians are tokenized by people who care more about appearing#like someone who Listens to Palestinians as opposed to 1) doing anything material to help them (like donating money)#and 2) not spreading obvious misinformation. something that does material damage to the cause of liberation#AND further fuels the most insidious of zionist propaganda which relies on the antisemitism of ignorant western goys#this propaganda banks on their antisemitism bc it's that fucking reliable#every white western goy that harasses jews or spreads misinfo about jews or is straight up just racist towards random israeli immigrants#ppl living in the west like running coffee shops that are now having their windows smashed bc that what? supports palestinian liberation?#makes it that much easier for actual zionist propagandists to say 'see. this was never about imperialism. they want an excuse to harm you.'#'you are only safe with us'#i grew up in a cauldron of this kind of propaganda and i was playing on hard mode i got it from the orthodox#it took years of dutiful unlearning. of wrestling with some really difficult realities. of realizing that i'd been not only lied to#but information had been deliberately kept from me to keep me from knowing the true depths of the horror happening in gaza#i did not get the luxury of starting to care about this six months ago during a concerted effort to correct the record#i had to put in the effort to unlearn two decades of propaganda given to me so young i don't remember a time when i didn't know it#and i am by far not the only jew with this experience#i have put in way more effort to care about this than every white western goy with a megaphone posting palestinian flags on IG#but none of that matters bc i am a jew and for the last 5000+ years we don't get to decide how we're discussed or how we're remembered#never mind how many jewish voices (and yes! even israeli voices!) have been supporting liberation efforts in palestine for years.#who've done an amazing job reaching more people who need help seeing through the propaganda they were raised on#i can only be a token who speaks only in protest chants or i can be an evil zionist. the anti imperial work doesn't matter.#bc anti imperial work is hard and none of them actually want to do it they just want the protest photos#anyway this is why i don't discuss this on the piss on the poor website. tbh i don't trust y'all
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the problem with building out america's rail network btw is that it's privatized and there will never be a corporate incentive strong enough or backed enough to implement effective, accessible, AND privatized countrywide travel. nationalize railways deliver on the demands of railway workers and most importantly respect indigenous sovereignty/include indigenous design input when plotting routes
#and a million other things mostly to do with geology but in terms of politics and morals this is what im going with as far as a snappy#summary of 'the problem'#however geology elaboration: america is So hard to build railways across because our most populated areas along the west coast#(where most of the rail drought is; rail PRICING on the east coast is a whole nother thing)#are stupid mountainous. the california hsr plan is spending several million more on the rail line bc they gotta plan around a mountain#and the problem gets worse the farther north you get on account of the cascades and ESPECIALLY the region around shasta#in another life i was a seismic engineer. anyway#i'm looking for a papers or other peer-reviewed content on the history of american rail labor#if anyone has favorites send them my way cause all my research is locked on california and the pacific coast more broadly#'research' my font of pdfs i downloaded from ILLs lol
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The International Military Tribunal for the Far East-aka The Tokyo War Crimes Trial.
Most people will have heard of the Nuremberg Trials, but few have heard of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE), or Tokyo War Crimes Trial. The Nuremberg trials are often criticized because of the low number of convictions of Nazi War criminals. The conviction rate of International Military Tribunal for the Far East was even lower. Most surprisingly the Japanese Emperor,…
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#History#International Military Tribunal for the Far East#Japanese Emperor#Japanese War Crimes#Tokyo#Unit 731#War in the Pacific#World War 2
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I hate being on twitter for competitive splatoon because this shitass social media keeps showing me the most braindead takes such as “public health measures during the Black Death were better than the Covid-19 pandemic”
#it’s time for me to be a history major#purely looking at the stats:#okay. yeah the disease that wiped out an estimated 1/3-2/3 of the European population had better public health measures than now#THE MOST DEADLY PANDEMIC IN HUMAN HISTORY#minimum 75 MILLION death toll#estimated to get up to TWO HUNDRED MILLION#COVID’s current death toll according to WHO is just under 7 million#WHAT ARE YOU FUCKING TALKING ABOUT#I HAVENT EVEN MENTIONED THAT THE ‘PUBLIC HEALTH MEASURES’ THE PERSON WAS REFERENCING IS BLOODLETTING SELF-FLAGELLATION AND WALLING CITIES#MEDICINE WAS NOT THAT GREAT IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY#most braindead twitter user#like the bubonic plague was HORRIFIC#it quite literally devastated europe and Asia and the Middle East like everywhere#and had quite far reaching impacts#like take a second to think about it#just in Europe 30-60% of the population dies#that is traumatizing dude#just like#HOW CAN YOU THINK LIKE THIS TWITTER USER
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Current Situation would actually probably be solved if I stopped looking to Projects for all my satisfaction in life
#i wrote out a list of the things i would need to research to write the *fics* that i want to work on#let alone my actual Official Grad School Projects#of which i have several other ideas in the works besides the ones which i'm actually doing for final papers#and then of course there are several original stories i want to write too but those are who knows how far out#current thing i've been spinning around in my head is writing something about lascars on east india company ships#(specificallly i have set my heart on writing a story about a mutiny on board one of them which ties in with Indian History happenings#in the general outside world and everything sort of being in a process of change (have not decided on an era yet hence Vague)#and also the main characters are a nayar boy and mappila muslim boy who he has a huge crush on and they get a love story)#not really sure how to make this story work at all because the amount of things i'd want to know for it#involve several decades of research probably to do it well#but hey that's never stopped me!#not to mention the fact that i started reading about 18th c. conceptions of sex and now want to work more on hornblower top surgery fic#with more fun and spicy early 1800s medical debates and such#and also i want to work on my stephen getting captured by the french but it's canto jo i la muntanya balla fic#which *also* involves lots and lots of research so ughhhh#i wonder how i got into this situation. i wonder why everything feels like So Much 🤔🤔🤔 could not be my fault at all#perce rambles
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Eishōsai Chōki - Hatsuhinode (First Sunrise), 1790 Woodblock print (nishiki-e); Ink and colors on paper 38.1 cm x 25.1 cm Library of Congress
With its nearly perfect color preservation, this print is arguably the best surviving impression of one of Eishosai Choki’s masterpieces. It comes from a rare, luxurious series featuring beauties in the four seasons of the year and incorporating blown mica. Scholars have identified two states of this print, of which this is believed to be the second due to the lack of outline around the ocean sandbanks. Comb and hairpins precariously askew, a lean beauty pauses next to a washbasin to glance back across the sea to a brilliant red sunrise. With her right hand tucked warmly inside her robes, she reaches the other out from within her inner robe in order to pull her collar against the cold air. The mica-sheen emitting from the black sky and brightness of the water at the top of the print evoke the iridescence of the early morning light. The blossoming pheasant’s eye (fukujuso) plant next to the dipper on the basin signals that this is the auspicious first sunrise of the new year.
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okay i'm hitting the last post 90's year for research for the princess theatre (the archive ends after 2010) which i dont expect to take me much more than an hour max if that.... and then i have to return to the doc and decide what is missing and how to redirect it. I just do not have the knowledge that the original writer has about film and honestly i think it detracts somewhat from the history of the theatre/edmonton history and I will end up cutting a lot anyway, so I'm trying as much as possible to get examples and reactions of queer films shown there just to give people an idea that yes, actually, they were showing films about gays and lesbians in the 80s, and yes they were featuring films about drag in the 90s and films with trans main characters in 2005 etc etc rather than a treatise on new queer cinema globally because we just don't have the time for an essay within an essay, frankly.
even outside of films shown there were other events where the community either made films at the theatre or held vigils outside of it that are worth mentioning too and I just don't want that to get completely swamped in academic film studies level movements.
#hapo rambles#hapo's workventures#besides a lot of the history ends up being at the garneau theatre anyway#and it's too far out of our scope at the moment#oh yeah happy queer history month sobs quietly#also it is a lovely Four Degrees with a high of Eight today#should anyone out east want to come over
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Russia is rotting, giving China a huge range of options with its declining neighbor. If current trends persist, China can reasonably expect its old territories to one day fall into its lap(..)
P.S. If the Russian imperialists imagine that they will be able to manipulate history with impunity, they are sorely mistaken...others with more power can also play this game...
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